here's a little bit from president obama in 2004 talking about his autobiography. >> you know, i just had an appearance on charlie rose, and, you know, he was asking me how does, how does the book connect with your politics? and it's very clear to me that there's a direct line between the subject matter that's contained in "dreams from my father" and the type of politics that i aspire to. because, essentially, what this story is about is a boy born to a father from kenya and a mother from kansas in hawaii with an unusual name -- [laughter] who traveled to indonesia, came back, found himself in chicago working in some of the lowest income neighborhoods in the country, and then traveled back to africa. and somehow was able to weave together a workable meaning for his life as an african-american, as an american and as somebody who's part of the broader human family. and that was not an easy task. it wasn't an easy task not because i did not have some enormous love from my family, i did. it wasn't because i didn't have people helping me every step of the way. i had that help. but it was b